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New York, January 26, 2012-A U.S.-based journalist convicted on politicized terrorism charges in Ethiopia was sentenced to life in absentia today, while two other Ethiopian journalists received heavy prison sentences in connection with their coverage of banned opposition groups, according to news reports. Elias Kifle, exiled Ethiopian editor of the Washington-based opposition website Ethiopian Review, [...]

SEATTLE (Ethiomedia) – Ethiopian rebels on Sunday said they were responsible for the January 17 attack near the famed Arta-Ale Volcano but blamed Ethiopian forces for the deaths of five European nationals. The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF), a rebel group fighting for greater autonomy for their region, said a battle broke out when [...]

Ethiopia says Eritrea-trained gunmen killed tourists By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA | Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:16am IST (Reuters) – Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia’s remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighbouring Eritrea which trained and armed the attackers, an Ethiopian official said on Tuesday. [...]

It would be hard to find a better symbol of media repression in Africa than Eskinder Nega. The veteran Ethiopian journalist and dissident blogger has been detained at least seven times by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government over the past two decades, and was put back in jail on September 14, 2011, after he published [...]

Dear Ludger Schadomsky, I read your open letter to Ethiomedia with a great deal of interest. I appreciate some of the points you have made referring to the nature and conduct of the regime in Ethiopia that has severely curtailed freedom of expression in contravention of the letters of its own constitution and international conventions. [...]

Mauritanian authorities have exposed a Mossad network in the country involved in the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud Mabhouh and the outburst of the Ethiopian plane in Lebanon where a Hezbollah target was on board. [Editor's note - please refer to Ethiomedia's warning last year.] According to Al-Huriyeh (Freedom) Mauritanian newspaper, the Mauritanian authorities have [...]

Washington DC (ESAT)–The Oromo Liberation Front has announced its historic decision to drop its long-held secessionist agenda and to embrace the unity of Ethiopia under a genuine federal arrangement that must guarantee the rights, equality and liberty of all Ethiopians. In a historic press release, the OLF, led by Brigadier General Kemal Gelchu, issued at [...]

The Swedes jailed in Ethiopia Journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson received yesterday his imprisonment timed to 11 years. In Stockholm and other European cities have it when, last week talked about strategies to secure their release as soon as possible. For many observers, it is just a waste of time to appeal. Sure, this [...]

The terrorist convicted Swedish journalist Martin Schubbye, 31, and Johan Persson, 29, was eleven years of imprisonment. This was decided by the Ethiopian court today. Earlier in the morning reported that prosecutors would appeal the ruling, but it was a misunderstanding, interpretation, says Johan Persson’s father Kjell. – The task is not true, I have [...]

International Journalists, Writers, Rights Activists Protest Terrorism Charge Against Ethiopian Journalist News Release | December 23, 2011 Eskinder Nega Dec. 23, 2011 – A broad international group of journalists, writers and human rights activists today called for the Ethiopian government to unconditionally release journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega, imprisoned since Sept. 14 on terrorism charges [...]